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2. Pilkington - Wikipedia

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   Website. www.pilkington.com. Pilkington is a glass-manufacturing company which is based in Lathom, Lancashire, England. It includes several legal entities in the UK, and is a subsidiary of Japanese company Nippon Sheet Glass (NSG). It was formerly an independent company listed on the London Stock Exchange and a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index ...

3. Libbey-Owens-Ford - Wikipedia

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   Libbey-Owens-Ford. Libbey-Owens-Ford Company (LOF) was a producer of flat glass for the automotive and building products industries both for original equipment manufacturers and for replacement use. The company's headquarters and main factories were located in Toledo, Ohio, with large float glass plants in Rossford, Ohio, Laurinburg, North ...

4. Nippon Sheet Glass - Wikipedia

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   Nippon Sheet Glass. Nippon Sheet Glass Co., Ltd. (日本板硝子株式会社, Nihon Ita-Garasu Kabushiki-gaisha) is a Japanese glass manufacturing company. In 2006, it acquired Pilkington of the United Kingdom. This makes NSG/Pilkington one of the four largest glass companies in the world alongside another Japanese company Asahi Glass, Saint ...

5. Float glass - Wikipedia

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   Float glass. Float glass is a sheet of glass made by floating molten glass on a bed of molten metal of a low melting point, typically tin, [1] although lead was used for the process in the past. [2] This method gives the sheet uniform thickness and a very flat surface. [3] The float glass process is also known as the Pilkington process, named ...

6. Self-cleaning glass - Wikipedia

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   Self-cleaning glass. Self-cleaning glass is a specific type of glass with a surface that keeps itself free of dirt and grime. The field of self-cleaning coatings on glass is divided into two categories: hydrophobic and hydrophilic. These two types of coating both clean themselves through the action of water, the former by rolling droplets and ...

7. Hugh Austin Windle Pilkington - Wikipedia

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   Hugh Pilkington was direct descendant of Richard Pilkington who in 1826 founded an early glass manufacturing company that in 1845 became Pilkington Brothers Ltd.Innovative methods of glass manufacture developed by the company resulted in the company earning great income, and members of the Pilkington family became beneficiaries of company trusts. [2]